The Lehigh Valley Railroad Volume 2
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- This is a preview of The Lehigh Valley Railroad Volume 2. Full DVD is available from www.johnpmedia.com
DVD Summary:
In volume 2 of The Lehigh Valley Railroad, we’ll look at steam and diesel operations from Jersey to Pennsylvania, with a brief scene in New York state between the mid 1940’s and the early 1970’s through films from a variety of noted photographers.
We begin at Jersey City and proceed westward into Pennsylvania towards Pittston and New York State
We close this volume with a fan trip through coal country over the Hazleton and Quakake branches to Shenandoah, Centralia and Mount Carmel in June of 1957
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color and B&W; approx 61 minutes runtime 
Авто/Мото
I’m dead at the end when Mike said “There’s a Norfolk Southern train master following behind.” He throws so much shade at NS.😂
Always enjoy seeing the variety of old roadnames on freight cars that are free of graffiti. Brings back memories of train watching days in the 1960s.
These types of videos make me realize how much better trains looked before grafitti
You had me at Big Mike....
Love the LV. Dad grew up in Ithaca.
I grew up hearing about the Black Diamond.
Loved watching this video! I grew up in Woods Hole, Mass. on Cape Cod, trains ran for many years there. I remember the New York, New Haven, and Hartford trains, as they arrived at WH depot to drop passengers off to catch the ferries to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. My childhood home was on a steep embankment right next to the train tracks and every time I heard a train approach I would drop everything and run to the train bridge next to my house to watch them coming and going.When I was 10 (1963) an engineer let me "help" drive the train, pushing the lever forward and traveling the shot distance from the Steamship Authority to the chicken coop. I love every about trains and wanted to become a Lady Engineer!
Loved the Oscar Mayer reefer car at 3:01, a classic in itself. All Excellent footage. Thank You.
When I saw that reefer car I thought that is what it said. I wasn’t sure so rewound the video to be sure.
Not sure, i heard consist closest to locomotive is hot merchants..high profit.
Love that Centralia footage.
Great video of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 7 members of my family worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad out of Coxton Yard. My great grandfather Stephen Kearney, 4 grand uncles & 2 second cousins worked for the Lehigh Valley from about 1868 up tp 1976 when it became Conrail & my 2 second cousins worked for Conrail up to about 1985.
7:16 I've never seen footage of the tracks in Centralia- for that matter, I've never seen any footage of the town in it's heyday.
Great footage, those old passenger trains look so recent.
This narration gives me life
I especially enjoy the narration.
You could hear it over the noise ?
@@abbush2921 can hear it perfectly. Get your ears checked.
Wow! Great video, and tons of eastern PA history. Centralia - a town that in ‘58 had only 4 more years. Who knew? I love to hear Mike Bednar’s narration.
Wish we had a guy like Mike Bednar to narrate old PRR film across Indiana and Ohio! Man I love listening to retired Railroaders give commentary like this!
My best childhood friends father worked erie shops as electrician..Iron men don't waste words.
@@williamoverton1548 Wasn't at Marion Ohio was it?
Love these old rail fan videos!
Hard to believe this is 8mm. Quality is superb. Thanks
Great video from a Golden Era!!
That video quality is incredible for the 1960s
Priceless stuff. Thank you!!!
Like Mike's narration with info on the people that worked for the LV.
This production is beautiful… thank you.
Thanks for making this video. A real trip back in time!
Pretty cool at 3:45 you can see him knock down that old semifore signal as he passes by
Fascinating segments of film, well produced. I’ve ordered volumes 1 and 2 and look forward to seeing the full stories.
Mike jabs Norfolk Southern relentlessly 🎯🔥😂💯
Keep these coming.
Thanks.
amazing video 😍
thumbs up 👍👍
greetings from Indian railfan 💐
Great video, Thanks from Germany
I'm not much of a diesel guy but these scenes were filmed with a Kodak camera around the Allentown area, The CNJ mainline went through the city Parallel to the Lehigh Valley and Reading railroads since the place was served by the Bethlehem steel mill that produced most of the material used to make famous landmarks such as the Empire State Building and George Washington Bridge.
Those Alcos were really something.....
Love it, your videos are great!
Wonderful!
he says Bethlehem like the Bethlehem steel workers n families do BETH'LEM. I say it now after living in Johnstown PA area a few yrs.
wow the fair train and a coal train with a steamer. god i missed the good stuff by 50yrs haha
This warmth seems gone from RRs here in 10/15/2020 !!!
2:18 LV 414 still operates in LV paint under Delaware Lackawanna
I was happy to see an Orr train.
See how awesome it was to rainfall in the 70's . Different engines , beautiful cars ( no graffiti ) caboose's, the engineer would wave . Now today they're all the same
Gr8 stuff
As usual great video and hearing Big Mike and who hiding hitching about 3;18 on circus train?
At 1:31 I wonder if that lv emd sw1200 had a wabco a2 or not?
Gotta do more Prr
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is still around, it is now an inactive subsidiary of American Premier Underwriters which was formerly known as Penn Central and before that it was formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad before it absorbed the New York Central; so the Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central is the same railroad, not two different railroads. Unfortunately the Reading Company did not survive as Reading International merged the Reading Company into a newly created limited liability company like 1-2 years ago.
I watch these all the time man. Do you have a link where I can buy?
www.johnpmedia.com
It looks like the Lehigh Valley Railroad had a thing for Alco's.
OK...wonderful.....
Budd RDCs...pre wet-noodle CNs...lots of pretty ALCOs...like Christmas!
Train Sim World on PS4 Xbox and PC ..... great game
6:38 That's an odd stretch of track, I assume it's that way due to clearance issues?
The road crossing is right where the switchpoints would throw, looks like they extended it towards the curve to avoid having to move the crossing. I've never seen construction like that, very interesting.
Pretty sure he called it the gauntlet track, so assuming there's a bridge that both tracks share somewhere in the distance.
Looking at this closer, it’s apparently built that way for close clearance near stations. The inner track is what the passenger train would run on as it serviced the station. The thru freight uses the outer track to stay further away from the station.
What horn is that at 4:53 ?
A leslie rs 3?
Does it seem that the LV trains always seemed to be a little dirtier and weathered than other operators of that era? I like the well-worn look but maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.
Not really. The Lehigh Valley Railroad operated in some very dirty areas. Including in and around many Anthracite coal mines.
Coal dust is good for you.
@@BOBXFILES2374a It builds character. Puts hair on your chest, etcetera.
Do I detect a slight disdain in Mike's voice towards Norfolk Southern?
That’s an under understatement
Belle époque ferroviaire.... Aucun contrôle sur la pollution, la propreté des trains, des voies et de leur stabilité.... On utilise, on use... Jp lobet
Bound Brook!!!
It was also the CNJ main which was also used by the B&O and Reading RR
@@CrossOfBayonne CNJ>RVL
LV>Lehigh Line (B&O)
Reading> PRS
Bethlehem Steel
When life was simpler
I'd love to meet the idea that didnt come from here
Interesting that 90% of their business was generated on 20% of their track.
Dude talking sounds drunk lol